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| | For First Time, Astros Advance (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | The Astros move on to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Championship Series, beginning Wednesday in St. Louis, while the Braves must contemplate another bitter October ending, another round of organizational soul-searching that almost certainly will lend them no answers. |
 | | The Astros claimed to have been immune from the pressures of an elimination game such as this one, having been through, in their estimation, about 50 of these games in the past eight weeks. |
 | | Since being left for dead in mid-August, the Astros have played every game as if their next loss would eliminate them, and they went on to produce a 36-10 stretch run and, now, a hard-fought victory over the Braves. |
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